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Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
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How To Identify Twin-Born Lambs, G T. Halpin, P. Nelson
How To Identify Twin-Born Lambs, G T. Halpin, P. Nelson
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
IN the past few years it has become widely accepted that the ability to produce twin or multiple lambs is a heritable characteristic.
This means that breeding from sheep born as twins should give more multiple births and higher lambing percentages than breeding from sheep born as single lambs.